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Ban on short
selling
In line with regulatory instructions concerning
Short Selling of UK, US, Irish, German and French Financial Stocks
and all Australian Financial Instruments, we wish to inform our
customers that short selling in the mentioned instruments is
temporarily prohibited.
Whilst we do our utmost to enforce these new
trading rules, please remember that we provide an execution only
service and it is ultimately your responsibility to ensure that you
abide with any regulatory restrictions on short selling.
We will endeavour to keep this list up to date
but cannot guarantee its accuracy and it should be used as a guide
only.
UK
1 Admiral Group
2 Alliance &
Leicester
3 Alliance Trust
4 Arbuthnot Banking Group
5
Aviva
6 Barclays
7 Bradford & Bingley
8 Brit
Insurance Holdings
9 Chesnara
10 Close Brothers Group
11
European Islamic Investment Bank
12 Friends Provident
13
HBOS
14 Highway Insurance Group
15 HSBC Holdings
16
Investec
17 Islamic Bank of Britain
18 Just Retirement
Holdings
19 Legal & General Group
20 Lloyds TSB Group
21 London Scottish Bank
22 Novae Group
23 Old Mutual
24 Prudential
25 Rathbone Brothers
26 Royal Bank of
Scotland Group
27 RSA Insurance Group
28 Schroders
29 St
James's Place
30 Standard Chartered
31 Standard Life
32
Tawa
Irish
1 Bank of Ireland
2 Allied
Irish Banks
3 Irish Life and Permanent
4 Anglo Irish Bank
Corporation
France
1 Allianz
2 AXA
3 BNP
Paribas
4 Credit Agricole
5 Dexia
6 Societe Generale
Germany
1 Aareal Bank
2 AMB Generali
3 Commerzbank
4 Deutsche Bank
5 Deutsche Borse
6
Deutsche Postbank
7 Hannover Ruckversicherung
8 Hypo Real
Estate
9 MLP
10 Muchener Ruckversicherung-Gesellschaft
Australia
The ASIC has prohibited the
shorting of all indices and stocks. For more information please
visit http://www.asic.gov.au/asic/asic.nsf
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